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Muslim immigrants abroad are looked upon by the West as a group whose culture calls for violence and terrorism. Immigrant group’s adherence to the Islamic dress and their tendency to reside in closed residential areas so as not to mix with the natives [Europeans] enhanced this belief in the minds of Westerners. But an important question to ask is whether those immigrants should enjoy the rights of political citizenship in spite of their clear rejection of the host country’s culture. Here, one has to make a distinction between political citizenship, which is enjoyed by all citizens, and cultural citizenship that distinguishes marginal groups within the society.